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421) The arrangement
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A trio of sizzling historical romances that prove passion is timeless.
MISCHIEF AND THE MARQUESS. Justin, the Marquess of Fontaine, and Lady Sophie Milton-Riley are completely ill-suited to one another. But they will have to prove it in order to end their mothers' insistence that they should marry. Yet the more they attempt to demonstrate how wrong their union would be, the more surprisingly, irresistibly right thngs feel ...
THE DUKE'S TREASURE....
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Karen Witemeyer's "Love on the Mend," set in post-Civil War Texas, tells the story of two competing doctors. Jody Hedlund's "Out of the Storm" finds a desperate woman shipwrecked near a Michigan lighthouse. Melissa Jagears' "Love by the Letter" is an unexpected mail-order-bride prairie story. Sarah Loudin Thomas' "Appalachian Serenade" finds love in a small-town West Virginia store. Finally, Jen Turano's "Gentleman of Her Dreams" tackles the New York...
423) Snowfall in the city
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"The St. James affair : Elaine St. James has a perfect life--thriving career, a devoted boyfriend whom her parents love, until, she doesn't. Christmas Eve Byron breaks up with her. Facing the prospect of spending the holidays alone is quite out of the question. From her past, like a knight in shining armor arrives a childhood friend, and possible new love interest."--Publisher description.
"Candlelight Christmas : As single father Logan O'Donnell...
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Everstone chronicles volume 5
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"In this captivating novella by Dawn Crandall, Nicholette Everstone is already a widow at the age of twenty-two: her husband was murdered on their wedding day. She has just returned to Boston after two years of mourning in Europe. Although her husband was loving, the marriage was an arranged one, and Nicholette would like to wed again--this time for love ... and to someone safe.
As she acclimates to life in Back Bay again, Nicholette meets someone...
As she acclimates to life in Back Bay again, Nicholette meets someone...
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Written in the 1970s and published posthumously in Polish in 2012, Milosz's deliberately unfinished novel is set in a dystopian future where hierarchy, patriarchy, and religion no longer exist. Echoing the structure of The Captive Mind and written in an experimental, postmodern style, Milosz's sole work of science fiction follows four individuals: Karel, a disaffected young rebel; Lino, an astronaut who abandons his life of privilege; Petro, a cardinal...
426) Noches de invierno
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"Allie Fairchild cometió un error cuando se mudó a Montana. Su alquiler es un desastre, sus colegas en el centro de traumatismos son hostiles, y el guapo casero, Dex Belmont, está lejos de ser encantador. Pero justo cuando Allie está a punto de tirar la toalla, la vida en Bear Mountain da un sorpresivo y sensual vuelco."--
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"The path to love is filled with twists and turns in these stories of entangled romance with a touch of humor from four top historical romance novelists! Includes Karen Witemeyer's The Love Knot , Mary Connealy's The Tangled Ties That Bind , Regina Jennings's Bound and Determined , and Melissa Jagears's Tied and True ." -- ONIX annotation.
428) After many a summer
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"A down-and-out screenwriter is hired to deliver a mummified head as the ransom for a kidnapped Belgian heiress, but his encounters with the supersitious kidnappers and the heiress lead him to question his actions."--
429) The mayor of Leipzig
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"In Rachel Kushner's latest work of fiction, The Mayor of Leipzig, an unnamed artist recounts her travels from New York City to Cologne - where she contemplates German guilt and art-world grifters, and Leipzig - where she encounters live "adult entertainment" in a business hotel. The narrator gossips about everyone, including the author."--Provided by publisher
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New college grad Aubrey Porter is a gifted photographer ready for the world. With a degree and a dream, she's heading to New York City to start a new job and a new life. She can't wait to experience Rockefeller Center and to take a thousand pictures of her first Christmas in the city. But before she's even on the ground, she loses the job and learns her parents are divorcing.
432) Ceremonials
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"Ceremonials is a twelve-part lyric novella inspired by Florence + the Machine's 2011 album of the same name. It's the story of two girls, Amelia and Corisande, who fall in love at a boarding school. Corisande dies suddenly on the eve of graduation, but Amelia cannot shake her ghost. A narrative about obsession, the Minotaur, and the veil between life and death, Ceremonials is a poem in prose, a keening in words, and a song etched in ink."--Back cover....
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"When the amoral and cynical "J" takes up his pen to describe Magdalen Montague, he little realizes the dramatic changes that will soon be wrought in his life. His fascination for this mysterious woman catapults him into a harrowing encounter with Catholicism, conversion, and discipleship. Through the letters, intimate portraits of four souls appear: the loquacious letter-writer "J," his virulently antireligious recipient, "R," the weird, silent servant...
434) Stone and steel
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"When general Aaliyah returns to her city triumphant, she expects to find the people of Titus prospering under the rule of her Queen and lover, the beautiful stone mage Odessa. Instead, she finds a troubling imbalance in both the citizens' wellbeing and Odessa's rule. Aaliyah must now rely on all her allies, old and new, to do right by the city that made her."--Page 4 of cover.
435) Motley stones
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"The first complete English translation of the nineteenth-century Austrian innovator's evocative, elemental cycle of novellas. For Kafka he was my fat brother ; Thomas Mann called him one of the most peculiar, enigmatic, secretly audacious and strangely gripping storytellers in world literature. Often misunderstood as an idyllic poet of beetles and buttercups, the 19th-century Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter has been rediscovered in recent years...
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Heavy was the crown but Heiress Von Weber wore it with ease. Known as the Givenchy Queen, Prada Mommy, Louboutin Heel Slayer, she ran marathons around chicks at Waverly High. Heiress was hotter than a ten. Her neck and wrist stayed on freeze; but being the HBIC of her high school sorority, The Royal Court, was wearing her thin. Heiress was tired of being Miss Perfect. Living up to the expectations of who everyone else wanted her to be wasn't working...
437) Counternarratives
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Ranging from the 17th century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives' stories and novellas draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present.
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"Haley McKee is furious to find herself stuck in the tiny town of Starlight Bend so near Christmas. The only one who can help her is the handsome Maddox Campbell, a cowboy who's not impressed with her fancy job title and money. In fact, no one has given Haley this much grief her entire life. But there's a lot more to Maddox than at first seems - he's a hard-working man who gives much of his time and patience to help those who have little. When a Starlight...
439) Rookfield
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"When Cabot Howard's ex-wife, Leana, flees the pandemic with their son Porter to the backwoods town of Rookfield, Cabot sets off after them. Once he arrives, however, he finds Leana is in hiding, her family won't hand Porter over, and the townsfolk are deadly serious about always wearing masks. The town's children dress like little plague doctors and the adults are hellbent on getting Cabot out by nightfall. Despite being alone and under attack,...
440) The secret admirer romance collection: can concealed love be revealed in 9 historical novellas?
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"Some loves must remain secret until the time is right. Declaring one's love can be hard--even risky--especially when faced with some of life's greatest challenges. Separated by class, time, distance, and more, nine historical novellas explore the challenges involved when you love someone but can't reveal your heart to them. Instead, notes of affection, acts of kindness, gifts of admiration, and lots of prayer are circulated."--Page [4] of cover.
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